Objective
The ALLFUN proposal aims at defining the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which ubiquitous airborne or commensal fungi contribute to immune homeostasis and its dysregulation leading to allergy and inflammatory diseases. Breakthroughs in understanding how mucosal homeostasis is established, maintained or disrupted in the presence of fungi should be sources of new therapeutic targets and drugs (i.e. anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory and anti-infectious molecules). European scientists representing the leading edge of this field are brought together here in a unique synergistic and cross-cutting collaboration that addresses a major medical and economic problem of considerable importance to the health care sector. The study will be centered on yeasts and filamentous fungi known to be associated with a number of inflammatory, autoimmune and allergic diseases. Via a multidisciplinary systems biology study combining fungal genetics, clinical research and animal models in a systems biology approach, integrating traditional wet-lab methods with those of functional genomics, immunomics, allergomics and bioinformatics, the ALLFUN project meets the criteria of the call, the strategic objective of which is “to elucidate mechanisms by which infections may lead to aberrant activation of inflammation, the lack of resolution of which is responsible for inflammatory diseases”. The anticipated results are highly relevant to society in terms of reducing the burden of mortality and suffering in patients with fungus-related diseases, identifying more accurate biomarkers for immunological disorders, optimizing and possibly reducing the cost of antifungal therapy by association with anti-inflammatory strategies that targets pathogenicity rather than microbial growth, the host-pathogen interface rather than the pathogen. Understanding the spectrum of immunological responses to fungi is perhaps the single most important challenge in the field of medical mycology.
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- medical and health sciences health sciences inflammatory diseases
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology mycology
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology autoimmune diseases
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine allergology
- medical and health sciences basic medicine physiology homeostasis
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FP7-HEALTH-2010-single-stage
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Coordinator
06123 Perugia
Italy
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